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document.write('<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Midnight, MAY 14, 1948, the State of Israel came into being and was immediately recognized by the United States and the Soviet Union. A homeland for the thousands of Jews who were persecuted and displaced during World War II, Israel was attacked the next day by the Transjordanian Army, the Arab Legion, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. Against all odds, Israel survived. On November 29, 1948, President Harry S Truman wrote to Dr. Chaim Weizmann, the first president of Israel: "I want to tell you how happy and impressed I have been at the remarkable progress made by the new State of Israel." In 1968, President Lyndon Johnson stated: "America and Israel have a common love of human freedom and a democratic way of life...Through the centuries, through dispersion and through very grievous trials, your forefathers clung to their Jewish identity and their ties with the land of Israel. The prophet Isaiah foretold - \'And He shall set up an ensign for the nations and He shall assemble the outcasts of Israel and gather together the dispersed of Judah from all the four corners of the earth.\'" President Johnson concluded: "History knows no more moving example of persistence against the cruelest odds."</p>');
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document.write('<p>Truman, Harry S. November 29, 1948, in a personal letter to Dr. Chaim Weizmann, President of the State of Israel. Harry S. Truman, Memoirs by Harry S. Truman - Volume Two: Years of Trial & Hope (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1956), pp. 168-169. President Harry S. Truman wrote: "I remember well our conversations about the Negeb, to which you referred in your letter. I agree fully with your estimate of the importance of the area to Israel, and I deplore any attempt to take it away from Israel. I had thought that my position would have been clear to all the world, particularly in the light of the specific wording of the Democratic Party Platform.... I have interpreted my re-election as a mandate from the American people to carry out the Democratic platform - including, of course, the plank on Israel. I intend to do so.... Thank you so much for your warm congratulations and good wishes on my re-election....In closing, I want to tell you how happy and impressed I have been at the remarkable progress made by the new State of Israel." Public Papers of the Presidents, President Lyndon B. Johnson Remarked at the 125 Anniversary Meeting of B\'nai B\'rith, September 10, 1968: "Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life....That small land in the eastern Mediterranean saw the birth of your faith and your people thousands and thousands of years ago. Down through the centuries, through dispersion and through very grievous trials, your forefathers clung to their Jewish identity and clung to their ties with the land of Israel. As the prophet Isaiah foretold-\'And He shall set up an ensign for the nations, and He shall assemble the outcasts of Israel and gather together the dispersed of Judah from all the four corners of the earth.\' History knows no more moving example of persistence against the cruelest odds. But conflict has surrounded the modern state of Israel since its very beginning. It is now more than a year that has passed since the 6-day war between Israel and its neighbors-a tragic and an unnecessary war which we tried in every way we could to prevent. That war was the third round of major hostilities in the Middle East since the United Nations established Israel just 21 years ago-the third round-and it just must be the last round."</p>');
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